Identifier: autobiographyrem00noel (find matches)
Title: Autobiography and reminiscences of Theophilus Noel
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Noel, Theophilus, 1840-
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
Publisher: Chicago : Theo. Noel Company Print, c1904
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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heycould earn on the farm, and with their .wages they can sup-port a family of men folks in idleness. The negro who once leaves a farm can never be inducedto return, except it may be to cut cane or pick cotton, and whenhe has been paid for his days labor there is no1 assurance thathe will be found there at work the next day. They are rapidlyacquiring the ability of living for days at a time without any-thing to eat, and it is surprising to know on what a smallamount they can subsist. In the days of slavery a peck ofmeal, two ounces of salt and two1 pounds of bacon were a nig-gers weekly rations. I believe that there are thousands ofthem today who are living on less than that. They rely uponfilling up when they go to do a days work spading in a garden. It is a part of a niggers natural make-up to be indolent,insolent and thievish, I am only one of the many who believethat these traits cannot be educated out of them in many gen-erations of time. To the man who has traveled in Mexico and
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(See Page 156,) WITH MAGRUDER AT GALVESTON. Ill Cuba, as well as in Egypt, India and the Orient, and has un-derstood the conditions of affairs with the people of these coun-tries, it will be perfectly plain that the negro question in theUnited States is one that will not down and one that no legis-lation will benefit, change or alter. That they are on the increase and have been since the warone need only to look to the census reports to bcome convinced,while on the other hand, taking out the emigration, the whitepopulation in the South is on the decrease, and the productsof the country, excepting it be the spots where only vegetablesand fruits can be raised for the Northern markets, are on thewane. Its tobacco and its once King Cotton are not whatthey were even a few years ago*; the soil has become so ex-hausted in the greater area of the Southern States that we canonly expect to see it become more and more depopulated. The South is no country for the industrious young man togo to, un

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